When artist Olivia Kemp visited Norway for a three week residency in April, her hosts spoke of their fondness for boating to the islands in the summer for camping holidays. Olivia managed to get a birds-eye view of some of these places during her stay and, when back home in the UK, she began making drawings of imagined Nordic atolls.

Remembering buildings she had seen during her stay, she sought to reflect the tension between the natural and the man-made in the rural landscape, and chose not to populate her imagined islands to heighten this sense of unease. Her finished work 'The Archipelago' measures two metres wide, took four months to complete, and is currently on display at the Griffin Gallery in London.